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Alan H
@alan678.bsky.social
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Love photography, a few photos actually published. 😁 All photos ( excluding reposts) posted by me belong to me. This is an inclusive of all friendly place. Host #BirdOfTheDay with Rob. #EastCoastKin Arts Collective Member
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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 17h
Good morning. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Bugs any bird and bug in one capture. The alt theme is #EverydayBirds birds you see often. Good luck to everyone. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
Male stonechat perched upright on a budding plant stem, holding a bright yellow-and-orange insect in its beak. Its black head, white neck patch, and warm orange chest are lit by golden sunlight against a smooth, pale blue background, with green leaves and rounded buds framing the perch.
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w-hope.bsky.social
You are now 2K followers 🙏 I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Let us be like these flowers, proud as the rays of sun, with the goal of bringing warmth and light to those who need it most. Thank you and take care 🫶 🤗

#ColorADay #YellowThu #flowers
#love #photography #sensoryart
Hémérocalle jaune à plusieurs têtes en pleine nature. Cette fleur pour fêter les 2000 abonnés qui suivent ce compte 💛 Merci du fond du coeur et continuons à apporter la lumière, le bonheur et l'espérance à celles et ceux qui en ont vraiment besoin dans ce monde sensible, mais tellement désireux d'amour et de grâce, j'en suis sur 🙏 📷🌞🕊️
February 12, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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mygardenuk.bsky.social
Thursday Rose 2. 🌹

Bit busy today. ☺️
Hope you having a good day. 😊🙏

#Love #Peace #Roses #Nature #Flowers #SkyRoses #FlowersEveryday #ukGarden #BlueSky #ColoursOfLove #HarRose #OldPhotos #ColoursOfNature #BloomScrolling #BeautyRange #NaturalArt #art #OldPhotos
February 12, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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kokopellidesign.bsky.social
Und da hängen sie. Bin ich froh, dass ich so viele Bilder mitgenommen habe. 😅😍 #kleineKunstklasse #Mittagspausenvogel
Bilder Bilder Bilder Bilder
February 12, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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rina2012.bsky.social
It's almost Friday, and you know what that means:
It's time for #Scape ✌️

Post your favourite Scape: #Landscape, Cityscape, #Skyscape, #Seascape, Treescape...
I'm looking forward to it 🥰

#EastCoastKin #photography
#Sunset #sunsetlovers #Goldenhour #ColorADay #YellowThu #ArtChallenges
You can see a sailing boat anchored duringngolden hour. the sun has set and bathed the sky in yellow light.
February 12, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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a3minutewonder.bsky.social
#palacesandgardens
AllAglow
#alphabetchallenge
WeekFforFramed
The Vyne, Hampshire
February 12, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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oldmanrambling.bsky.social
I tried to find something to fit Sabine’s @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social #PalacesAndGardens challenge of #AllAglow
but all I came up with was this dark, partly lit corridor at Ightham Mote, a medieval moated mansion in Kent. I used something similar before.

#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin
Overhead pendant lights glow in a corridor hemmed in by dark wood panelling. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro
February 12, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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juneandcie.bsky.social
#PalacesAndGardens
#AllAglow
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersofBlueSky
Galerie des Glaces. Château de Versailles. As a studend, i had the rare privilege to visite it after opening hours with all lights glowings
February 12, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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laurette1.bsky.social
Ornate chandelier in the opulent Gold Room at Polesden Lacey in Surrey.
#PalacesandGardens
#AllAGlow
#Photography
#HistoricHouses
In the early 20th Century the owner Mrs Greville used the house for entertaining guests including royalty. The whole house is luxuriously decorated apart from the servants quarters! The gold leaf decor in this room is illuminated by the carefully maintained lighting.
February 12, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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hedgehoggrl.bsky.social
Wine cellar.
(estate name lost to the ravages of time and terrible note-taking).

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFForFramed #PalacesAndGardens #AllAglow #Abstractia #repetition
Black-and-white photo of a cellar corridor lined with huge wooden wine barrels under and arched brick ceiling punctuated with glowing electric lanterns.
February 12, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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bluemoon3143.bsky.social
Chandeliers in the lobby of the Boston Opera House, prior to a seasonal performance of the Nutcracker.

#PalacesAndGardens
#AllAglow
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFForFramed
#EastCoastKin #photography
The Boston Opera House (now the Citizens Bank Opera House) was originally designed by Thomas W Lamb, a prominent theater architect, and opened in 1928 as a movie and vaudeville theater. After years of decay, it underwent extensive renovation and reopened in 2004 primarily for theater and ballet productions. The photo is of the lobby with vaulted and arched gold gilded ceilings, painted murals, white Carrara marble pillars, and 12-foot handblown chandeliers. The area is decorated with lighted Christmas trees and garlands. There are people on the stairs and balconies.
February 12, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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annalois36.bsky.social
Halberd Glow
for #PalacesAndGardens theme of #AllAglow

#EastCoastKin #photography #chandelier #halberd #tudor #SpekeHall #weaponry #Liverpool #illuminate #GreatHall #lookup #windows
(iPhone camera)
Photograph taken inside the Great Hall at Tudor wonder, Speke Hall in Liverpool. Second outing for this photograph but it fits well with today's theme, and who doesn't like gleaming weaponry? Image captured looking up at the large chandelier with candle bulbs and the leaded glass windows beyond in the beautiful wood panelled, double-height room. The chandelier's light reflects as an amber glow on the replica pole axe (halberd) blades of the weaponry displayed over the mantlepiece. Love Speke Hall. Such a great day out and they have brilliant community events, like apple harvesting in autumn and a professionally organised second hand bookshop.
February 12, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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jillysnaps.bsky.social
The Palace of Westminster

The grand lobby of the Houses of Parliament in London.

#PalacesAndGardens #AllAGlow
#ColorADay #YellowThu
#HumansOfBlueSky
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekFforFramed
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A dramatic, low-light view of the Central Lobby in the Houses of Parliament, London. The gothic hall is richly detailed with dark wooden paneling, carved statues set into niches, and lit by ornate brass chandeliers glowing from the ceiling. A striking geometric patterned tile mosaic covers the floor. A man in a dark suit is visible from behind, walking toward the central, arched doorway that leads into the Members' Lobby.
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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bluemoon3143.bsky.social
Stretching the theme a bit, as this is a log cabin rather than a palace. It's a lovely memory of a past vacation. I love a fieldstone fireplace!

#PalacesAndGardens
#AllAglow
#EastCoastKin #photography
#MaineCoast
A wood fire burns brightly in a fieldstone fireplace. There are two candles lit on the mantel and two cocktails on a table in the foreground. The scene is warmly lit by only the fire and the candles.
February 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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alinagrafik.bsky.social
#PalacesAndGardens #AllAglow

Gresham Palace in Budapest, Hungary represents the Art Nouveau architecture. It is now a Four Seasons Hotel.

#EastCoastKin #ArtNouveau #Budapest #Hungary
A very large, tall hall inside the palace has a glass block roof/ceiling comprised of hundreds of squares. At one end is a dome, also using the glass squares. The ceiling is a glowing blue from the blue sky outside. Inside, there are warm lights glowing and a large, long, glass Art Nouveau chandelier.
February 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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prepekka98.bsky.social
The Brown Palace Hotel in Denver is a palace in name only, but #AllAglow nonetheless.

#PalacesandGardens #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed #MobilePhotography
Looking up from the lobby of the Brown Palace Hotel at night.
February 12, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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yredknap.bsky.social
I didn't think that I had an entry for Sabine's theme #AllAglow but I found one. The chandeliers in St Martin-In-The-Fields Church, London.
#UrbanGaze #PalacesAndGardens #Photography #EastCoastKin
Six large chandeliers are suspended from a very ornate, vaulted ceiling which features the royal coat of arms in one of the panels. The light from the chandeliers reflects off the gilt on the nave ceiling, the decorative scrolls above the windows and around the top of the columns. In the nave is a large domed window, with rectangular windows on each side of it. Dark wood panels front the upper seating on each side.
February 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Medieval Bath House' (2025) -- Ba Na Hills, DaNang, Central Vietnam

'We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one — Confucius

#UrbanGaze ✨ #Scape ✨ #ImageAndVerse ✨ #PalacesAndGardens ✨

#Photography #Architecture
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
A dim and relaxing indoor Roman Bath lit by medieval stone windows lies still, it's waters placid, awaiting it's first bather
February 12, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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breeze420.bsky.social
“The landscape listens—shadows hold their breath.”
— Emily Dickinson
Landscape in the high desert shows hills and grassland with a path curving in the foreground.
February 12, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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lesliebulion.bsky.social
Two of my favorite subjects, @alan678.bsky.social , are #bird&bugs! Here's a young bobolink's successful snag in my favorite local haunt for today's #birdoftheday.
February 12, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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wouterkbouter.bsky.social
Today's theme is #birds&bugs, as per @alan678.bsky.social, and this Blue Tit certainly seemed quite happy with it's snack! Taken last year at Oxford Island Nature Reserve, Northern Ireland. Enjoy!

#birds #birdoftheday #pimpelmees #wildlife #photography
February 12, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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belleab.bsky.social
More from the Big Apple 🍎
#UrbanGaze #nyc #manhattan #newyork #architecture #ColorADay #yellowthu #january #photography
February 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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dwightreads.bsky.social
Have a wonderful day ☀️
#ColorADay #YellowThu #FebruArty2026 #flow #sky #seascape #sunset #beach #Florida #nature #outdoors #photography #scape #stormhour #photohour
#PhotographersUnited
#EastCoastKin #GulfofMexico
February 12, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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davemeredith.bsky.social
Today's alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EverydayBirds. A Black-capped Chickadee taking flight on the #BrucePeninsula, Ontario in winter.

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #BruceCounty
February 12, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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birdrgirl.bsky.social
A lucky 🪶Red-headed Woodpecker who found a hearty cicada for lunch!
#BirdOfTheDay #Birds&Bugs #TennesseeBirds
February 12, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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atlanticbirding.bsky.social
🪶 Today’s Alt. #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EverydayBirds but I have the opposite to share.
Saw my first lifer in a while yesterday; Snow Bunting feeding on the shoreline!
Hopefully the 1st of many for 2026 🤞

#birds #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #eastcoastkin #snowbunting #irishbirding #lifer
A Snow Bunting on a mound of sand on the shore. The bird is in side profile looking to the left with a seed in its beak. Its on a sandy patch in the foreground; the background is decaying seaweed
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 AM